The SW Population and Public Health Academy deliver monthly webinars on health inequalities for local systems and partners to attend. This is in partnership with NHS England and NHS Improvement, UK Health Security Agency, Health Education England and, the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities.

Each webinar has a topic focus and webinars to date included coastal inequalities, hypertension and public mental health. Webinars provide an awareness raising session, and examples of case studies as well as time for Q&A. Delegates who register receive a CPD certificate.

• Introduction to Health Inequalities – https://youtu.be/irmdY_BjKOk-12/05/2021
• Health Inclusion – https://youtu.be/qToTutUES1o-24/05/2021
• Anchor institutions –  https://youtu.be/XOGj1bagQLU-14/06/2021
• Behavioural change –  https://youtu.be/KsuI1HfZkS4-06/07/2021
• Long COVID –  SW Population and Public Health Academy Health inequalities webinar- Series 2, Webinar 1-Long COVID – YouTube
• Inequalities in Coastal Communities – https://youtu.be/hxS64LgFWFk-07/12/21
• Public Mental Health – https://youtu.be/CJ1deryntX8-07/02/22 ​
• Health Equity Assessment Tool – https://youtu.be/yyAiuwElENQ-22/11/2021​
• Health protection Webinar South West – https://youtu.be/JRRHsnQ87es
• Building hypertension detection and management into an ICS strategic approach to CVD Prevention in the South West (May 2022) https://youtu.be/Pkz-MkRUOCE
• SW Population and Public Health Academy – Drug Webinar: https://youtu.be/voTBHJcf3Z0
• Oral Health Inequalities Webinar: https://youtu.be/YXyTabbMqno
• SW Population and Public Health Academy – Homelessness- https://youtu.be/vk5KJeVCisY

If you’d like to be added to our mailing list for future webinars please contact Lucy Davis, Lucy.Davis@dhsc.gov.uk

Mental health and mental illness have an impact on all of us, either directly or indirectly – whilst we can all benefit from having good mental health, 1 in 6 adults experienced a common mental health problem in the last week. People with more serious mental illness die 15-20 years earlier than the rest of the population and suicide is the leading cause of death for people between the ages of 10 and 34.

To help improve our nation’s mental health, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (formerly known as Public Health England) has launched the Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health which marks the first time local and national government agencies have come together with organisations across the health and care sector, to make prevention a priority for mental health. The programme continues to grow, with over 140 organisations representing all sectors signed up and committed to action. It is underpinned by an understanding that taking a prevention-focused approach to improving the public’s mental health has been shown to make a valuable contribution to achieving a fairer and more equitable society.

South West Association of Directors of Public Health (APDPH) and Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) held a webinar on Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health for systems leaders for integrated care systems (ICS) and local authorities on the 3^rd May 2022.

The webinar provided an overview of what public mental health is and why it is important, introduce the OHID Prevention Concordat and how it could be linked to key government policies (including the Levelling up agenda and NHS long term plan) and experiences from existing signatories on how the Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health promote the public mental health agenda across their local systems and encourage stakeholders to work collaboratively to improve mental health for their population.

https://youtu.be/xhb6ma64ZXg

For further information and resources for the Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health and Public Mental Health agenda, please join our South West Public Mental Health Workspace at South West Public Mental Health – FutureNHS Light or contact Martin.White10@dhsc.gov.uk for more information.

The South West Population and Public Health Academy has brought together key partners including NHS England, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the South West Association of Directors of Public Health to create the South West Behavioural Science Hub.

The aim of the Hub is to create a behavioural science community of practice, refresh and increase knowledge on the topic of behavioural science, and to share innovation and best practice relating to behavioural science. This focusses on the ambitions of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan to upskill in prevention and behaviour change, to support population health and the reduction of health inequalities across the South West region.

We have designed and delivered an initial 3 webinars to introduce you to behavioural science, understand the models and concepts and how they can be applied in practice. An additional fourth webinar took place in early October focussing on using the COM-B (capability (C), opportunity (O), motivation (M) and behaviour (B)) model in practice and the recording will be added to the below link soon.

The target audience for these webinars is anyone working in the health and care system who wishes to understand more about behavioural science and how this can be applied in your own area of work.

The SW Behavioural Science Hub webinar recordings can now be accessed via the NHS Futures Platform here: https://future.nhs.uk/SWPopulationandPublicHealth